Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once every 12½ minutes during the Fourth of July weekend, somebody's holiday came suddenly to a halt on the highways; in four days, 491 bodies were lifted from the wreckage...
Across the Dominion, most people seemed stolidly unperturbed. With holiday plans or crop prospects to think about, Canadians felt far away from Korea. But there was calm agreement that the time had come at last to stop Red aggression. From the quiet reaches of New Brunswick came unusually heated words. Said the Saint John Times-Globe: "Probably a few [atom bombs] dropped now would quickly send the North Koreans back behind the 38th Parallel...
...reacted to the crisis quickly and well, but it did not shake all of its old habits. The House completed action on a bill cutting excise taxes, thereby restricting revenue at a time when more taxes would probably be needed; then dispersed for its ten-day Fourth of July holiday. The Senate calendar was still clogged with Fair Deal measures which had been debatable before, and were now clearly luxuries...
...love the country, of course " said Macy's, Manhattan's biggest department store, in a holiday ad this week. "The air is so fresh, the grass is so green, the animals are so audible. But . . . Does the country love us?" Pausing to "survey the blandishments that have lured many a New Yorker away from the safe familiarity of asphalt pavements and carbon monoxide," Macy's offered its own glossary of country terms and phrases for New Yorkers. Excerpts...
...from week to week. The Cowles brothers' dehydrated news and picture weekly (4 by 6 in.) got a more spontaneous form of flattery last week: Newsweek (circ. 805,461) launched an experimental Quick-sized imitation called People Today. Its editor: Allen Chellas, 39, an alumnus of Parade and Holiday...